Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-04-14
NEWS SUMMARY.

! ISIS.
The car win not permit the Rus
slams to take part in the Paris eXposi-
/ ton in 1889.
At President Cleveand's public re-
/ ception. Monday, John l.. Sullivan
| took his hand.
Several thousand carpenters in Chi
cago and one thousand IN Cincinnati
went ON strike Monday.
/ The Illinois Senate passed a bill to
| indemnify owners OF property for dam
! ages caused by mobs.
BY an explosion III a coal mine at
! Savannah, Indian Territory, twelve
| Italians lost their lives.
The cotton factors and buyers of
| New Orleans have resolved to employ
no members of the labor unions.
! Spencer Smith, an attorney Of
! Council Bluffs, has been appointed
railroad commissioner of Iowa.
Colonel r.. G. Ingersoll, who was on
/ Friday admitted to practice in the
/ courts Of New York, refused to be
| sworn.
A steamer carrying eleven hundred
! Cinnamon, with smallpox among
them, arrived Monday at San Fran
| cisco.
Forty persons were killed or in
/ iured on Sunday at Linguagloss,
! Sicily, by the collapse Of a church
| roof.
/ A company has been organized in
| Louisiana, partly by western men, to
| build railway from Alexandra to
/ Houston.
Robert T. Lincoln offers the Spring
/ field homestead to the State of lii
nois on condition that it be preserved
with care.
William Kyle, wholesale liquor
/ dealer Of Toronto, has been sentenced
/ to five years in the penitentiary for
! forging notes.
The senate of Pennsylvania has
passed a bill providing that murderers
/ of the first degree may be put TO death
/ by electricity.
Both branches of the Connecticut
/ legislature have passed bill proyid-
ing for weekly payments to employees
of corporations.
Pleuro-pneumonia has been almost
! suppressed at Boston, but has appear
/ ed in the herd of Mr.. Barrow, at Sa-
lem, New York.
Queen Victoria arrived at Cannes,
/ Friday, amid the cheers of the people
and Il salute by the French Mediter-
Tanean squadron.
The British house of commons
passed cloture by a vote of 36l To 253,
and agreed upon the first reading of
the coercion bill.
SIX men were frightfully burned by
an explosion of molten metal in the
Edgar Thomson steel-WOrks ut Brad
dock, Pennsylvania.
\ statue of Schuyler ColfaX is to be
unveiled at indianapolis, May S, by the
/ Odd-ielloWs. The figure Is being east
in bronze at Chicago.
1t is rumorcd in New York that Mrs.
John a. Logan Is preparing for publl-
| cation q novel treating OF society AZ
| the national capital.
Miss Catherine Wolfe, OF New York,
| known throughout the United States
for her wealth and beucNolencc, eN.
pired Monday morning.
A tract of land seven miles from
! Denver, proifered by a committee Of
| citizens, has been accepted 10y General
Sheridan for military post.
As the tenants on the Irish estates
of Lord LanSdowne refuse 70 COM
promise, the eviction Of all i'm arrears
will be commenced ON April 20.
Wreckage discovered in Buena Vista
bay, Newfoundland. serves to confirm
J the rumored loss of the sailing steam
er Eagle. with Il crew of 250 men,
Reports 50 far received indicate
that, owing 10 the drought, the wheat
crop OF California will not be more
than tWo-thIrds the average yield.
. The District Attorney at New York
has decided to bring Jacob Sharp to
, trial i'm May for completely IN the
Broadway Surface Railroad bribery.
Farm lands in the vicinity OF Cool
: idge. Kansas, have since Friday adj
vauced to $500 per acre, ON account of
the development of two veins of coal
|, Henry NJ. Stanley writes that the
British fleet MT Zanzibar has given way
to the German, and that traders of the
latter nationality are In the majority.
! Herr Most. since hi4 "elease from u
g. New York prison, promises To be more
outSpokSu IN his auarchism than ever,
and to seek out scandals among the
. rich
4 gentleman i'm Washington has re-
cciVed adylceS from England that the
condition OF Secretary Manning ls
, worse than when he sailed from New
York.
The birthday Of General Grant will
be celebrated ny the Ameucus clue of
Pittsburg by a banquet on April -.
Roscoe Conkllng has promised to
attend.
Natural gas was found i'm a hill near
West Coyiugton, Kentucky, at
depth of 500 feet. Money has been
subscribed 10 sink wei, at La Porte,
indiana
The Chief Justice of Montana has
decided that commercial travellers